Governments find themselves damned if they do nothing, and even more damned if they act.
By Charles Onyango-Obbo
Columnist
On September 2, President William Ruto announced that foreigners must stop petty trade, such as hawking and running small shops. The move aims to protect Kenyans from competition. Kenya wants job-creating investment, he said, not foreign hawkers.
The president’s announcement immediately drew comparisons with South Africa’s wide-scale xenophobic purges of African migrants.
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